Nursing bottle and nipple protector



W. WEISSHEIER.

NURSING BOTTLE AND NIPPLE PROTECTOR.

APPLIEATION FILED JUNK-I19, 1920.

1,42 1,877, Patented July 4, 1922.

WITNESSES IIVVENTOR ATTORNEYS warren stares WILLIAM WEISSHEIER, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NURSING BOTTLE AND NIPPLE PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4,1922.

Application filed June 19, 1920. Serial No. 390,101.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM VVmssHnanR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of N ew York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Nursing Bottle and Nipple Protector, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to nursing bottle attachments, and has for an object to provide an improved construction wherein the bottle is properly supported in position and the nipple thereof is protected when not in use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bottle which is provided with aprojecting ring adapted to coact with ribbons or other connecting means associated therewith for tying the bottle to a carriage or other support so that the nipple will be in reach of the child using the bottle.

In the accompanying drawings:

The figure is a side view of a bottle and a cap disclosing one embodiment of the invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals 2 indicates a bottle formed as a nursing bottle and provided with a suitable rubber nipple of any desired kind. In bottles of this kind it is very desirable to protect the nipple against. dirt and in order to secure this result the bottle is provided with a flange or ring 25 adjacent the neck of the bottle formed to receive the curved gripping section 26 of the cap 27. The ring 25 may, of course, be of any size and height desired, but is arranged to readily receive the gripping portion 26, which portion is slitted so as to be divided up into a number of parts and thereby present resilient gripping fingers. The cap 25 may be readily applied and removed by merely forcing same on and off of the ring 25, the gripping portion 26 yielding to permit this action. Preferably the ring 25 is made 'sufliciently large whereby a ribbon or other ligament may be tied around the same and tied to a baby carriage or other support.

It will thus be seen that the ring 25 acts as a retaining ring both for the cap 27 and for ribbon or other ligaments desired.

The protecting cap disclosed in the draw-- ing has been described in respect to a nursing bottle as it operates in a very efficient manner thereon, but it will be evident that it could be used in connection with bottles cotaining different fluids, as for instance medicine.

What I claim is:

A nursing bottle, comprising a bottle having a neck and provided with an annular ring adjacent the juncture of the neck and body of the bottle, the neck being adapted to carry a nipple, and a cap having an enlarged lower portion and an annular portion to receive the ring of the bottle and provided withvertical slits extending from its end a short distance to permit the cap to snap over said ring, the lower enlarged )0!- tion extending to about the top of the hottle neck, and the reduced upper portion being approximately of the shape of a nipple.

WILLIAM WEISSHEIER. 

